Dewrad wrote:ghur wrote:If Mark would be the only one to edit it, then it seems like a wiki would be kind of useless, since a wiki's major advantage is that anyone can edit it.
Rubbish. A wiki's major advantage is that you can update pages near-instantly without fannying around with html. Using a wiki does not mean that you have to have collaborators- for an example see either
here or
here.
All true. Dan and I both have quite some experience with wikis; not only
the Wikipedia in various languages, but also our very own
Ill Bethisad wiki. I agree that it has numerous advantages: it's extremely easy to use, and you basically can access it from any computer with Internet connection. You can make notes, upload anything you want, and turn it into a huge databank.
For the IB project, it is extremely convenient: the project has over 40 participants; anything that has been contributed by anyone can easily be found in the wiki (as far as it has been wikified, of course). Therefore it constitutes an excellent repository of information.
But there is one major disadvantage: it will never look
really nice. No matter what background colour you use, and no matter what pictures you upload, a wiki will always be, an look like, a wiki. It will never match the superior presentation of Mark's Almea pages. In the context of IB I am very happy with our wiki, but I would feel sorry if it would ever replace the various websites that form part of the project (including Dan's masterpiece).
Even for a purely encyclopedic work, nothing can beat well-written HTML. Look for example at
http://dictionary.ebbs.net/. It's more work, granted, but then at least you've really got something!
Jan